Community Project: Process a Vocal Track

Many people learn best not just by reading, listening or watching, but by doing. And that’s what community projects are all about. In this project you’ll be processing a vocal—either a rock vocal or a voiceover. Want to get involved? Read on to learn how.

How to Get Involved

We’ve been covering vocals over the last month or so. But beside giving you great material to read and watch, we want to give you the opportunity to learn by doing. By getting involved.

Would you like to participate? It’s easy, all you need to do is join the Audiotuts+ SoundCloud group and get creative! We'll give you two options: mixing rock vocals and cleaning up a voiceover. Choose the one that appeals to you, or do both!

Upload the result to your SoundCloud account no later than August 1st. If you like, describe how you created the track, and what software you used.

Share the track with the Audiotuts+ Community Project group.

Anything goes:

Refer to the tutorial steps, but take some time to experiment.

Use whatever software you have. The tutorial is based on Adobe Audition, but you should be able to follow along using another audio editor or your DAW. If you don't have audio software, you might like to consider Audacity, which is a free open-source audio editor, and works on most platforms.